Mass Effect: Human Revolution

Every time I read about Saren retarded back-story with his brother's death being the source of his hatred of humanity, I feel a strong need smash my head against a wall. Saren was the one who killed his indoctrined brother and somehow he finds a way to blame humanity. Nice to see that was changed. But what about TIM? If he is even in this story at any rate.

Every time I read about Saren retarded back-story with his brother's death being the source of his hatred of humanity, I feel a strong need smash my head against a wall. Saren was the one who killed his indoctrined brother and somehow he finds a way to blame humanity. Nice to see that was changed. But what about TIM? If he is even in this story at any rate.

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Part of the defenses at Shanxi. A mercenary Wanzer pilot.

And Ignus? Hot thought; what if Williams technically didn't surrender the garrison, instead abandoning it and ordering his troops to go guerrilla?

This could be have an interesting impact on humanity's reputation - well-behaved when well-rested and well-fed, but capable of damn near anything if pushed. Might be cool if Garrus' father was involved with the attack on Shanxi...

"Let me tell you something about Humans, my son... On average, they're a wonderful, friendly people – as long as their bellies are full and their Omni-gel converters are working. But take away their creature comforts... deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time... and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most bloodthirsty Krogan. You don't believe me? Look at those faces, look at their eyes, look at the survivors of Shanxi..."

Yan Lo is meant to represent a sharp contrast to other Mass Effect crossover fanfics and how the Alliance handled Shanxi. While, for example, the GDI in Peptuck's Renegade won the battle by virtue of being badass and overwhelming firepower, the Earth forces in this fic won by virtue of being COMPLETE AND UTTER BASTARDS.

Motivations aside, again humans appear to have had more military tech at the time of first (official) contact than in canon. How much did they really lose from the Collapse?

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Well I imagine that rather depends. How much did the Illuminati lose? Probably none. How much tech did the average person lose access to possibly to the point of thinking those technologies were lost? Probably a couple.

keep in mind, the collapse was a century ago. Humanity bounced back real well.

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That's likely because though publicly damn near the entire planet save a few dozen high-tech enclaves were reduced to Third-world conditions, privately, I'd guess nothing was lost at all - but the Illuminati was able to restrict all the technologies they didn't like to covert use.

Yan Lo is meant to represent a sharp contrast to other Mass Effect crossover fanfics. While, for example, the GDI in Peptuck's Renegade won the battle by virtue of being badass and overwhelming firepower, the Earth forces in this fic won by virtue of being COMPLETE AND UTTER BASTARDS..

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This makes the Tribe even more poignant - what they did isn't all that different from what the Alliance navy did; throw the book out the window in the face of overwhelming odds.

Yan Lo is meant to represent a sharp contrast to other Mass Effect crossover fanfics and how the Alliance handled Shanxi. While, for example, the GDI in Peptuck's Renegade won the battle by virtue of being badass and overwhelming firepower, the Earth forces in this fic won by virtue of being COMPLETE AND UTTER BASTARDS.

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Its more that they won by using weapons which completely bypassed kinetic barriers (i.e. Ion Cannons) while still possessing defenses which blocked Turian attacks (kinetic barriers and firestorm shields). Excessive force helped, but even at equal tonnage they would most likely still have won.

The Admiral's complete lack of scruples works perfectly for this fic of course.

"Quit your bitching... go back down to the fifth floor, the target is probably recruiting the aid of Adam Jensen. Be warned, Jensen is covered head to toe in CNT, can cloak at will, and can see you through walls and in the dark. He favors non-lethal tactics, but use caution anyways...your sanitizer implants won't care if you're dead or just napping."

more writing....

"That shit won't fit in the stealth pod, you know that...Ah, we're on the fourth floor now, sir. Coming up on door 451...Black 6 and 7, stack up on that door. Permission to breach and clear, sir?"

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What floor is the apartment on is it the fifth as per the first two quotes or the fourth as per the last one?